The Psychotherapist Collective, is a shared private practice of five psychotherapists. We came together to start this space for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in 2015. Each of us is trained in the psychoanalytic tradition of psychotherapy. As a Collective, we offer Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and Couples Therapy. We work in-person and online. Our shared office is in New Delhi, India.
We work with persons experiencing emotional distress due to a variety of reasons such as depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, self destructive patterns, loss, trauma and various other personality, interpersonal and experiential reasons. We offer both short and long term processes of psychotherapy depending on the patient’s emotional state, emotional readiness and need.
In the therapy process, the patient and therapist jointly explore emotional conflicts, emotional deficits and ways of relating to oneself and others that are at the root of one’s difficulty and emotional suffering. The therapist helps foster a confidential, non-judgmental and supportive environment for the patient, within which an open and authentic self exploration can take place. The insight gained and the working-through of difficult feelings, over a period of time, makes it possible for patients to begin to feel facilitated and develop an emotional capacity to acknowledge, accept and begin to resolve their struggles and improve their relationship to their own selves, with others, as well as to their work lives - as and how they desire. This is a process.
We typically meet with a patient for a few initial consultations to recommend the best course forward in terms of the kind of help that might be most suited to what one is looking for and what one’s needs are. The frequency of sessions is decided jointly by the patient and therapist in the first few consultations. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy usually requires that the patient and therapist meet at least once, or twice weekly. Psychoanalysis, which is a more intense form of psychotherapy, usually involves sessions at a frequency of three or four times weekly. Sessions can be face-to-face or on the couch. This is usually discussed in the initial consultations and the approach best suited is recommended and decided on together.